Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caused in part by the heavy expense of keeping a section of Expo open-has alienated Montrealers from their political leaders. The city's police were particularly angry because their Toronto counterparts receive more pay for less dangerous work. When the city offered the police an increase that still left them $800 short of Toronto's basic $9,200-a-year scale, the cops struck. As an Ottawa official put it: "The people who had been kicking them and stoning them and bashing them over the head weren't paying them enough...
...natural gas is plentiful. For motorists, the Pacific Lighting system has not solved a key problem: the bulky gas cylinders require most of a car's trunk space. The $300 charge for converting a car to natural gas is also likely,to deter all but ardent conservationists.'Still, the prospect of greater operating economy could attract fleet owners, start mass production, and eventually lower the conversion charge. If all U.S. vehicles ran on natural gas, its advocates claim, smog could be reduced by as much...
Uphill Fight. North Miamians can no longer walk across their lawns without crunching shells underfoot, and the snail outbreak may get still worse. Endowed with both male and female reproductive organs, the hermaphroditic snail multiplies at a phenomenal rate. In his authoritative study The Giant African Snail, University of Arizona Malacologist Albert R. Mead calculates that a single animal could theoretically produce 8 billion descendants in three years. Such spectacular proliferation requires a huge food supply-for example, Florida's luxuriant cash crops...
...Mets are amazing indeed, but they still must defeat the powerful, seasoned Baltimore Orioles in the World Series this week to prove they are No. 1. The Orioles coasted to the American League's Eastern Division title by 19 games, while racking up 109 victories, nine more than the Mets and only two shy of the major-league record. To beat them, the harum-scarum young Mets may have to rediscover the good-pitch, punch-hit style that carried them to the Eastern Division championship...
...Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail: a resplendent terminal species that, if not perfect, is at least complete...